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the best works on the pastoral care . If they ixk \ e learning and leisure sufficient ( which it is to he hoped is generally the case with ministers- t ; f our denomination ) th < y wilt , be ambitious to acquaint
'themselves with the ciciiheaiions of the Chiibtian teacher as given by Chr \* ostom , Basil and Gn . gory-Nazi * nztn ^ with , the K ( cK \ - sia ^ tes oi Erasmus , trul tl . t * Vi ^ u tatio Infirmorum of Steam ; but at a * 1 events they will-have recourse to the treatises cf Bmnet , Claude , O ^ tervald , Ma > o . n , and Gerard , to Dr % Watts ' s Humble Attempt , Dr . D < ddridge * s Preaching Lectures , iu \ d Dr . Williams ' s Christian Prone her . r l h < y will abo peruse wuh great i . iiU rest the lives
oi many eminent ministers ; particularly oi the two Henry ' s , Griive , Doddridge , Liechmaii , Priestley , Bourn , and Wood . Nor will they neglect the oeca . sional instructions given hy
eminent bishops and others of the esblished church in their visitation charges , particularly those of Patrick , Bull , Seeker , Blackburne , and Paley ; or by ministers among the < ii& * enters at the ordinations
of their younger brethren , as those ot Grove , Doddridge , Che ndler ,-For ^ lyce , Turner , and Holland . But there are many circumstances of arrangement and detail , which are perhaps considered as
too trifling and undignified for either the pulpit or the press , and which are but little touched in private lectures on- the pastoral care ( though Doddridge has not entireVy omitted them ) an attention
to < vlircli hiay jet , in actual practice , be foiind extremely usi-fuL Su'tfh are many of the fV ) llowing ; to i ^ i fj ? h ^ K ^^ v eVei ? ; 1 n ^ uest you will pay only just as much a | ten « -
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tion , asyouf own views of their proprii tynia ) lt-adyou tbjiul gepn ^ per , 1 . You will frnd it very usi-ful to proviije yourself immediatefff with a sort of congregational corn . men place bork . It should be racier a laige book , and should contain , first an accurate plan of
your place or worship , both of the ground floor and the galleries wiih the several p ews , &c . regUw laily Miunbtn d : next ^ an alphabetical index ( like a ledger-indvx ) to rvce . \ i the names .. of all the persons , subscribers and non-subscribers , rich and poor , -without distinction ^ , who individually or with their families , regularl y at , tend the public worship , and stat . edly or orcasionally join in the
coinmunion service . In making out this list you will , in the first place , have recourse \ o the trea . surer , but in bteking inft-imatiqn f ' rx-ni him , you will be so far In id curious to ham any particulars
respecting the amount of each person ' s subscription , that jou will studiously avoid -every possibility of having your rnii \ d biassed by any of the mercenary considerations \* hich such knowledge
might inspire , by making a pojni of receiving no information on this particular ; and will content yourself with obtaining an accurate account ot th ^ names , occupations , residences , numbers * n
family , &c . &c . of all the pei-S ( na who appear in the treasuicr ^ s books . When you have got this list , seek also that of the poorer members whose names appear in the . books of the deacons , or by
_ whatever other nanfte the officer * ' are called uho are entrusted with the distribution of collections ,. «?• r n ^ mes of others who dp not appear in either Ibt , butye ^ *
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47 ^ Letter a young Dissenting Minister .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 472, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/24/
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